For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT
or
THE ACT
. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 USC 1251 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
. The Commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control or his representative.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
. An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1) A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2) A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
(3) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if the representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20° C expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)).
BUILDING SEWER
. A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the systems.
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
. National categorical pretreatment standard or pretreatment standard.
CITY
. Any city receiving, collecting or treating wastewater from the county as represented by its City Council or City Manager.
CONTRIBUTION
. Any person who discharges any water or wastewater to the county or city's collection or municipal wastewater treatment systems.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
. The City Manager or his designee responsible for the pretreatment program.
COOLING WATER
. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
COUNTY
. The County of York or the County Council.
DAY
. The 24 hour period beginning at midnight and continuing to the next midnight.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
. The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the state.
DIRECTOR
. The City of Rock Hill Utility Director who supervises the operation of the City of Rock Hill's publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this subchapter, or his duly authorized representative.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
. The liquid waste from bathrooms, toilet rooms, kitchens and home laundries.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the term may be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of the agency.
GRAB SAMPLE
. A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
. Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE
. The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under § 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 USC 1317), into the systems.
INDUSTRIAL USER
. A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act (33 USC 1342).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
. The liquid wastes, other than domestic sewage, resulting from processes or operations employed in industrial and commercial establishments.
INTERFERENCE
. The inhibition or disruption of the treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the NPDES permit of the county or any wastewater treatment facility used by the county (POTW). The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with § 405 of the Act (33 USC 1345), or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of Solid Waste Disposal Act) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
or
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 USC 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES PERMIT)
. A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act (33 USC 1342).
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
or
PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
. Any regulation developed under the authority of § 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR Part 403.5.
NEW SOURCE
. Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a § 307(c) (33 USC 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which will be applicable to the source, if the standard is thereafter promulgated within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a NEW SOURCE means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.
PERSON
. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, state or federal governmental entity or other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns.
pH
. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. A "stabilized pH" will be considered a pH which does not change beyond the specified limits when the waste is subjected to aeration.
POLLUTANT
. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTION
. The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT
or
TREATMENT
. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing the pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Part 403.5(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
. The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to the degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than ½ inch in any dimension.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
. A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act (33 USC 1292), which may be owned in this instance by YCWSD or any municipality with which York County has an agreement for pretreatment of wastewater. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW
treatment plan, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this subchapter,
POTW
shall also include any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW
from persons outside the YCWSD system who are, by contract or agreement with YCWSD, users of the YCWSD
POTW
.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS TREATMENT PLANT
. The portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater.
RECEIVING STREAM
. The body of water, stream or watercourse receiving the discharge waters from the wastewater treatment plant or formed by the water discharged from the wastewater treatment plant.
SANITARY SEWER
. A sewer intended to receive domestic sewage and industrial waste, except that of the type expressly prohibited by this subdivision, without the admixture of surface water and storm water.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
. Any industrial user of YCWSD's wastewater disposal system who:
(1) Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the YCWSD water treatment system;
(3) Has in his or her wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307 of the Act or the state statutes and rules; or
(4) Is found by the city, state or EPA to have significant impact either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system; or
(5) Is designated by the POTW on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the operation of the POTW, sewer systems or treatment works or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.8(f)(6).
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
. A classification pursuant to the standard industrial classification manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1987.
STORMWATER
. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
. The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
. Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the administrator of the EPA under the provision of the Act, § 307(a), or other acts.
USER
. Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into YCWSD's POTW.
WASTE DISCHARGE AUTHORIZATION
. As set forth in this subchapter of this code.
WASTEWATER
. The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater which may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
. As set forth in this subchapter.
WATERS OF THE STATE
. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
YCWSD
. The York County Water and Sewage Department.
(‘77 Code, § 7-101) (Ord. 1585, passed 10-21-85; Am. Ord. 102, passed 1-21-02)